The authors examine the role of Numb, a Notch inhibitor, in intestinal stem cell self-renewal in Drosophila during homeostasis and regeneration. This is an important study providing evidence of a Numb ...

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It was in Drosophila melanogaster that genes were found to be bundled up in chromosomes, through crosses between red-eyed and mutant white-eyed flies. While this research was conducted more than a ...

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The cover features a confocal microscopy image of a Drosophila egg chamber showing severe multinucleation in epithelial tissue caused by dystrophin mutation in cells sensitised to cytokinesis failure.

With compelling electrophysiological and behavioural evidence, this work establishes that the activity of insulin-producing cells (IPCs) depends on the nutritional state in Drosophila and that, like ...

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